Improvement in frames for traveling-bags



J; B. SHEPLER km. E. HOSMER. Frame for Trave1ing-Bags,&0.

No. 222,799. Patented Dec. 23, 1819.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. SHEPLER AND FRANK H. HOSMER, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRAMES FOR TRAVELING-BAGS, 84c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,799, dated December 23, 1879; application filed October 8, 1879. i

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN B. SHnrLnR and FRANK H. HOSMER, of the city of Toledo, Lucas county, Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Frames for Traveling-Bags, Valises, and Similar Articles, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification. reference being had to when the bag is suspended by a flexible handle,

O, the bar of the stirrup B is at or near a right angle to the direction of the pull of the bandle 0, thus distributing and equalizing along the bar of the said stirrup or staple B the contact between the bar of the stirrup B and the eye 61 of the handle 0.

It is obvious that with the handle stirrup or staple heretofore in use, in which the bar of the stirrup is parallel to the top of the frame, the weight of the bag, when it is suspended by the handle, must be thrown entirely upon the outer edge of the eye cl, and that undue wear of the parts must take place.

The object of this part of our invention is to avoid this result by the use of the stirrup B, with the top beveled, as above described.

Our invention consists, in the second place, in providing such traveling-bag frame with an improved device for securing and fastening the hinge-wire f at its ends, which device shall also serve as feet for the bag and as guards or shoes for the ends of the bow A and the leather or other material fastened at thatpoint. This device consists of a plate, 0, of brass or other suitable material, bent somewhat in the shape of the letter U, with the inner branch of said plate e shortened, as shown at 6, Fig. 2, with the hinge-wiref passing through both branches of the plate 0 and the pieces composing the bow A, (not shown in Fig. 2,) the hinge-wire f being riveted at its ends to the longer or outer arm of the plate 0.

Fastened upon the wire f, between the branches of the piece 6, is a collar, i, touching the shorter branch of the piece 0, which collar '5 is designed to prevent the hinge-wire f from being pulled away from its end fastening, the hinge-wire f being thus practically doubly riveted in place at each end.

What we claim is- V 1. In the frame of a traveling-bag, valise, or similar article, the beveled handle stirrup or staple B, substantially as described.

2. In a traveling-bag or valise frame, the combination of the plate 0, the pieces composing the jaws of the bow A, the collar 1', and the hinge-wire f, arranged substantially as set forth.

JOHN B. SHEPLEE.

' FRANK H. HOSMER.

Witnesses:

W. H. HARRIS, ALMON HALL. 

